Want to talk about Climate Change? Climate Cafes back to our monthly format

To help avoid Zoom fatigue, we have decided to return to our usual monthly format for our Climate Cafes, with our next one taking place on Sunday 21 June at 4.30pm. Sign up here. Climate Cafes provide a supportive space in which to talk about how the climate crisis is affecting us – without pressure to act. The cafes will continue to be facilitated by Rebecca Nestor and Alison Hill.

During the Coronavirus outbreak our Climate Cafes are taking place via online platform Zoom. Please see the Meetup page for further details, future dates, and how to join.

We think our Climate Cafes offer something different from the usual gatherings of people with interests in climate change. They are facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. They are not designed to recruit you to do anything or to put you under any pressure. The idea behind them is that talking about climate change is really important – but it is often made more difficult by our feelings of guilt that we are not doing enough, or frustration that others are not doing enough. So we provide a space in which we don’t talk about what we or others are doing or should be doing. We just talk about climate change and how it is making us think and feel. Everyone is welcome.

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